Our non-profit organization started from a prank back in November 2017. Someone had put a friend’s contact information on Craigslist saying he was giving away free turkeys just before Thanksgiving - he was not. But our friend immediately received numerous phone calls inquiring about the free turkeys. Upon realizing there was a large need for something like this in our community, we gathered a group of local friends to actually raise some funds to give away meals that Thanksgiving. Since then we have grown exponentially each year, this year we are looking to provide 1200 free meals to families in 4 communities! (Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Waterloo & Dubuque) In 2019, the Iowa Giving Crew was created as a non-profit to help fill the needs identified in the community to bring Thanksgiving dinners to the food insecure and expand our ability to serve the community in other ways.